Excellent condition
No chips, cracks, discolouring. However there is an ‘accident’ with the light brown glaze on one of the plates. Check bottom left hand corner plate (top of) in the 2nd pic.
Mikasa – Setsuo Aratani, a Japanese-American businessman founded Mikasa as “American Commercial Inc.” in the state of California in 1948.
The dinnerware importer focused on trade with Japan manufacturers.
Mikasa grew into a widely known quality dinnerware wholesaler over the next decade, supplying dinnerware to Bloomingdales, Macy’s, May Department Stores, and other fine retailers throughout the mid-late 1950s.
The 60’s saw a teaming up with a young Canadian department store merchandiser named Alfred Blake.
Expansion continued into the 1970s with showrooms in New York City & New Jersey, along with a ‘budget’ brand for the mass market dubbed “Home Beautiful”.
In 1985 George Aratani forfeited ownership to a management buyout.
At the time Mikasa was generating $137 million in annual sales.
